Play the Catalan - Davies "New" The Slow Italian may look

The Slow Italian may look innocent

all stemming from actual games

Former KGB Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Popov

Fed up with getting difficult positions with the black pieces

Up-to-date theory on the critical lines

Play the Catalan - Davies "New" The Slow Italian may lookThe Catalan is a sophisticated opening system which is popular at all levels of chess. In recent years it has been catapulted into the limelight by Vladimir Kramnik, who has revitalized it with many new ideas and has utilized it with great success against the world's strongest players on occasion making it look like a forced win for White! In this book, Grandmaster Nigel Davies presents a major study of this important opening. Using illustrative games